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Reiner Steib <4uce.02.r.steib@gmx.net> writes:

> On Sun, Dec 01 2002, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>
>> Reiner Steib <4uce.02.r.steib@gmx.net> writes:
>>
>>> [1] <URL: http://my.gnus.org/Members/rsteib/howto_unify/>
>>
>> That seems useful.  Maybe it should say it is for Gnus 5.8 and Gnus
>> 5.9?  
>
> I didn't mention (and test) Gnus 5.8.8, because I though that it's not
> recommended to use Emacs 21.x together with Gnus 5.8.8 (as Gnus 5.9 is
> shipped with Emacs 21.x).

Ah.  I was thinking of XEmacs users, but perhaps the page was about
Emacs only.

>> I think Oort is supposed to unify at least across ISO-8859-*
>> automatically when possible [...]
>> räksmörgås
>> r¤ksm¤rg¤s
>
> When I *dis*able unify-8859-on-{de,en}coding-mode and add a `ß'
> (Latin-1) replying to your message, I get utf-8 (checked with
> `mml-preview') instead of Latin-9.

Do you instruct Emacs or Gnus to prefer UTF-8 anywhere?  I think the
unification is to the preferred charset.